Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Praise
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
1 Dilemmas and Decisions
2 Japan: Defying Gravity
3 The British in Burma
4 Titans at Sea
5 America’s Return to the Philippines
6 ‘Flowers of Death’: Leyte Gulf
7 Ashore: Battle for the Mountains
8 China: Dragon by the Tail
9 MacArthur on Luzon
10 Bloody Miniature: Iwo Jima
11 Blockade: War Underwater
12 Burning a Nation: LeMay
13 The Road Past Mandalay
14 Australians: ‘Bludging’ and ‘Mopping Up’
15 Captivity and Slavery
16 Okinawa
17 Mao’s War
18 Eclipse of Empires
19 The Bombs
20 Manchuria: The Bear’s Claws
21 The Last Act
22 Legacies
A Brief Chronology of the Japanese War
Keep Reading
Acknowledgements
Notes and Sources
Index
About the Author
Other Books By
About the Publisher
